Northern Marianas

The company building a huge casino resort in Saipan is having difficulty hiring construction workers to meet its completion date next August.

A bill has been filed in the CNMI Senate to change the succession rule for mayors by giving the governor the authority to appoint them under certain circumstances.

In what has been described as a blow to Northern Marianas economy, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service has slashed 3000 places from the Transitional Worker programme for the 2018 fiscal year.

Pokie parlours on Saipan in the Northern Marianas have sued the government in an attempt to halt a law prohibiting them from operating in villages on the island.

The Northern Marianas governor has passed a law banning handguns in the territory - but it can't be implemented.

Part of a once-thriving mall in the Northern Marianas could be restored as a medical facility.

A Chinese tourist in the Northern Marianas has been charged with harbouring illegal aliens as part of an unlicensed business.

The Northern Marianas has been given US$181,048 by the US government to help the island of Rota eradicate the recently discovered coconut rhinoceros beetle.

The Northern Marianas will allow the US air force to use the international airport on Tinian if the Anderson Air Force Base on Guam is rendered unusable.

A woman has been killed on Saipan and her husband is intensive care after a knife attack following a heated argument with one of their tenants over a $US50 power bill.

The mayor's office on Saipan in the Northern Marianas says it's rounded up 11 percent of 21,000 stray dogs counted three years ago.

The tourism industry on the Northern Marianas continues to boom.

The Northern Marianas has recorded the highest growth rate in its economy in the history of US territories.

A federal judge has rejected the US military's request to dismiss a legal challenge to its training plans for the Northern Marianas.

To alleviate Saipan's dearth of hotel rooms, a Chinese company wants a 400-foot luxury cruise ship to serve as hotel or 'floatel.'

A group representing the interest of the native people of the Northern Marianas is not supporting calls to amend the Commonwealth's constitution to allow longer lease terms on public lands.

The Northern Marianas' delegate to Washington Gregorio Sablan says he is vehemently opposed to US government plans to strip previous state residents of the right to vote in presidential elections.

The Northern Marianas' only hospital is now in a better position to retain nursing staff after they were awarded pay rises of up to 30 percent.

Increased tourist arrivals and a recovering economy have led to a record budget in the Northern Marianas.

The project manager for the main contractor on the Saipan casino in the Northern Marianas has been sentenced to six years jail.